CSC 469F / CSC 2208F | Course Home Page | Fall 2007

News

• Oct. 10
  • Assignment 1 is now available. Remember you are allowed to team up (max 2 per team) for this assignment. You are responsible for creating and managing your own team -- you do not need to let me know about them in advance, unless you need a unix group created for your team.
• Oct. 5
  • Unfortunately, the next assignment still needs some work before it is ready to go out. It will go out instead on Tuesday, and the due date has been moved to October 26th. This is the end of the week of the first term test. The extra days are to ensure you will have time to study for the test as well as work on the assignment.
• Oct. 2
  • I've had some questions about A0 and grace days / late policy. The course policy is no grace days and no late submissions accepted for A0. However, I don't feel like enforcing that policy, so I'm amending it as follows:

    Every individual has one (1) grace day for A0. If the grace day is not used for A0, it can be carried forward on a 50% basis for the team assignments. That is, if both team members save their A0 grace day, then the team gets 1 extra grace day for the remaining assignments. If only one team member saves their A0 grace day, then the team gets an extra 1/2 day for the remaining assignments (this will be the only exception to the rule of lateness rounding up to a full day).

• Sept. 27
  • I have added some notes on A0 that you might find useful. They are also linked from the main assignments page.

General Information

Course Information Sheet ( pdf ) and Syllabus ( pdf )

Instructor: Angela Demke Brown (demke469@cs.toronto.edu)

Teaching Assistant: Thomas Hart

Class Meetings:

Bulletin Board:
https://csc.cdf.toronto.edu/bb/YaBB.pl?board=CSC469H1F

Prereqs

• CSC369
• CGPA 3.0/enrolment in a CSC subject POSt

Marking Scheme

• 4 assignments - 50% (10%, 10%, 15%, 15%)
• First Term Test - 20%
• Second Term Test - 25%
• Class Participation - 5%

Textbook

There is no required textbook for this course, however, background on concepts can be found in any standard operating systems text. It is assumed that you have a copy of "Operating System Concepts" or "Modern Operating Systems" used in CSC369 in recent terms. Suggested text readings will refer to "Modern Operating Systems".

In lieu of a textbook, readings will be assigned from the research literature and the open source community. These readings are a key part of the course - make sure you keep up with them!

Course Description

From the Undergraduate Calendar:

An in-depth exploration of the major components of operating systems with an emphasis on the techniques, algorithms, and structures used to implement these components in modern systems. Project-based study of process management, scheduling, memory management, file systems, and networking is used to build insight into the intricacies of a large concurrent system.

A better description: This course builds on the concepts introduced in a standard first course on operating systems (such as CSC369H) to provide students with a deeper understanding of the internal workings of operating systems, and the impact of system-level implementation choices on user-level applications. These insights are important both for students embarking on a research program in computer systems, and for computing professionals who will work with the development and deployment of computer systems. Topics include operating system design and internal structure, benchmarking and performance evaluation, alternatives for inter-process communication, advanced synchronization strategies including non-blocking synchronization, virtual memory solutions for large address spaces and multiprocessors, multiprocessor scheduling, distributed systems, and security.